The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-01-28
Legislation at Harrisburg.

The following are some of the bills
that have been introduced in the legis
laturu during the past week a supple
ment to the revenue act of 1885. Re
ducing the tax on moneys at interest
from three to two mills and placing
one mill in the State Treasury one in
the treasury of county or city of the
first class enabling mechanics and
laborers to file lien on building con
structed on leased ground authorizing
married women to transact business, to
sue and be sued, to sign mortgages or
deeds, ETC., independently of their hus
bands repeating the three-mill tax to
punish the making and disseminating
of obscene literature appropriating
$50, 900 for the erection OF monuments
to the memory of Generals Meade and
Hancock, on the battle field of Gettys-
burg to authorize Registers of Wills
and Orphans Courts to require secur
ity for costs, and to apportion costs in
cases of caveat and appeal; allowing
husbands and wives to testify for each
other in criminal cases Legislative
apportionment. Identical with the
perfected bills of 1885 !; providing for
the retirement on three fourths pay of
Judges of the Supreme Court who have
served one full term and are sixty-fve
years old, and the Judges of other
courts who have served twenty years
or over and are sixty-fve years of age.
Also bill providing for an amend
ment to section !, ,,article 9, of the Con-
stitution, to make it read as follows /:
"All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class OF subjects within the terri
torial limits of the authority levying
the tax, aud shall be levied and collect
ed under the general laws; but the
General Assembly may by general laws
exempt from taxation every farm not
exceeding twenty acres on which the
owner actually resides and which is not
situated in a city or borough, every
building lot not exceeding 10000
square feet in area on which the owner
actually resides, public property used
for public purposes, actual places of
religious worship, places OF burial not
used for private or corporate profit,
and Institutions of purely public charity
provided that all taxes on land shall
be specific; !" bill providing tax for
saloons, hotels, inns and other places
where intoxicating liquors are sold in
cities of the first second and third
classes of $500, of which $500 shall
go to the city, 500 to the county and
800 to the State. The tax for retail
ing liquor in boroughs is placed at 5000
and in townships at $3.50. OF the
$500 in Philadelphia S4OO goes to the
city and county and 500 to the State,
liquor license bill providing IN ad-
dition to fees now paid license tax
to prohibit the blacklisting of employ es;
bill appropriating $4,000 to mark
with memorial tallets the position of
the Pennsylvania commands at the
battle Of Gettysburg; bill providing
for the appointment of mercantile ap-
praisers by Auditor general, and the
publishing of the list in two papers /;
a bill exempting bequests to churches
duV CellettIleS ITOIu COllateTdl lnDtrl-
tance tax; bill to secure to laborers
the benefits of the exemption laws; a
bill authorizing appeals by owners of
unseated lands to court, from the valu-
alton of county commissioners.
Senator Wolverton, of Northumber-
land, introduced bill providing that
all deeds and mortgages of real estate
situated in this state shall pass the
whole estate of the grantor or mort
gagor, although there are no words of
Inheritance or perpetuity contained
therein, unless it appears by, word of
limitation in the deed or mortgage that
the grantor or mortgagor intended to
give, grant or mortgage less estate.
A bill providing for the biennial pub
lication of the school laws aud decis
ions prohibiting non-residents from
hunting and killing deer for the better
protection and collection of wages of
labor; allowing hucksters and farmers
TO buy and sell farm produce without
license F; regulating sales by samples /;
relative to general elections.